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Riding The High Seas In A Bosun’s Chair

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HIGHLINING BETWEEN SHIPS AT SEA | NAVYSIGHT

Navy Highlining. [Image Steven Newbauer –https://navysight.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/highlining-between-ships-at-sea/]

 

 

 

By Dan Bodine

Reading about the U.S. Navy’s plan for “Chaplains to serve as counselors aboard all Navy destroyers by 2025″ brought back a frightening time almost 55 years ago when I rode a bosun’s chair from the aircraft carrier I was on, over to one of these “tin can” destroyers — all to fix it’s radar IFF unit.

Memorable, it was, yeah! Some of my ol’ seafaring days as a Navy electronics technician back during the Vietnam War era. Continue reading →

Layover At JFK Airport For An Icelandic Flight

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By Dan Bodine

Hee, hee! A true one about an ol’ Navy sailor once caught in an airport layover between duty assignments, and broke after boozing away his travel leave money! Memory stirred from long waits by thousands of Southwest Airlines passengers in the current weather-delay odyssey. Worries in layovers, they are. But don’t say rescue angels don’t exist! Continue reading →